(Huffington Post)  Irish actor Liam Neeson has revealed he is considering giving up on his Catholic faith and converting to Islam.

The Hollywood star, 59, was recently filming in Turkish city Istanbul and became fascinated with the muslim faith during his stay.

Speaking to The Sun, he said: The Call to Prayer happens five times a day and for the first week it drives you crazy, and then it just gets into your spirit and its the most beautiful, beautiful thing.

Our society in the West is actively discouraging spirituality and religious faith - that is true. I imagine Neeson’s upbringing 50 years ago in Ireland was quite different from his world today. And he sees value in that, though the leftist in him won’t let him understand why.

People like Neeson though don’t scratch below the surface though to get real understanding. Its all surface for the credulous and simple-minded.

When I was in Indonesia, I admit falling in love with the call to prayer. It is beautiful. It’s beautiful because it is an open expression of devotion that is part of the fabric of daily public life.

We used to have Church bells here that played during the day before busy bodies got that quashed through noise ordinances.

As for him using this as an excuse to choose a religion it’s own founder admits could easily have come from a demon as from God over Chritianity (Catholicism) is indeed nuts, but perhaps nuts borne out of grief.

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posted on 01/25/2012 7:43:03 AM PST
by RinaseaofDs
(Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)

The "Calls to Prayer" are the means by which Imams compete with one another to gain members for their mosques. The basis of competition while I was working in Riyadh was actually comparative bloodthirstiness. For example,

Since all activity comes to halt during prayers, one can listen to the competing muezzins calling from their hi-tech minarets at about 3 million decibels. One popular appeal:

"Come to the mosque that Allah the all powerful may give you the strength to slaughter the infidels in our midst."

Now Turkey isn't KSA, but the way the lower orders are multiplying, it may soon be! In which case, Neeson, who has already been the victim of some very inept plastic surgery, may get a few more cuts.

Amen. This man is being tempted by the liberal belief that everything foreign is romantic and cool. Sad to say, most liberals refuse to see the dark side of anything that is wrong. They just warp what is good into something evil.

Speaking to The Sun, he said: The chopping of heads happens five times a day and for the first week it drives you crazy, and then it just gets into your spirit and its the most beautiful, beautiful thing.”

Speaking to The Sun, he said: The stoning and beating of women happens five times a day and for the first week it drives you crazy, and then it just gets into your spirit and its the most beautiful, beautiful thing.”

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posted on 01/25/2012 7:47:51 AM PST
by Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)

I live in a densely populated area in Cleveland. When my parents first moved to C-Town fifty years ago the real estate agent called the area a “Catholic ghetto”. They could never say that today. Still, we can hear church bells from the five Catholic churches within a mile of my house several times a day.

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posted on 01/25/2012 7:55:44 AM PST
by Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)

Just shows he’s a cafeteria Catholic, totally ignorant of his faith, and probably hadn’t been to Mass in years. Rational thinking Catholics don’t become Muslims.
Maybe early stages of altiemers? He definitely aint knocking on all 8 cylinders.

Funny, when I was in Istanbul two summers ago, I didn’t have the same reaction. My guide spent the day “quizzing” me on Christianity. He said that Muslims knew more about Christianity than Christians did - that we were ignorant and weak. Glad I paid attention in Sunday School and Bible Study so I could at least defend my faith with facts and logic. When he realized that I wasn’t going to back down, He said, “first we ask you nicely to join us. Then we tax you. Then we kill you”. The quote is verbatim. I can’t imagine not wanting to be part of that!!! Needless to say, he didn’t get a tip :-)

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